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CORVALLIS - The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Society will hold its annual meeting Aug. 4-7 at Oregon State University, where scholars will explore topics ranging from race and law in the West to sports and its connection to community.

The conference is called "Dancing on the Rim: Nations, Borderlands and Identities." Some 250 historians, mostly from the West, will attend sessions and meetings on the OSU campus. Fifty sessions are scheduled on a variety of topics. For more information, see the conference website at http://pcb.cgu.edu

A number of the sessions will deal with the Pacific Northwest, said Paul Farber, chair of the OSU History Department. They include a roundtable discussion on the history of homosexuality in the Northwest, and presentations on contested space at Crater Lake National Park, new approaches to Pacific Northwest history, migrant worker mobility along the Pacific coast, and laboring identities in the American West.

This is the 98th annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Society. For more information, contact the OSU History Department at 541-737-3421.